Hearing the shout, Zhao Jian broke out in a cold sweat. His first reaction was to look at King Liang's expression.

As expected, King Liang looked at him coldly, and squeezed out a few words from between his teeth: "It seems that it is you who betrayed me."

Zhao Jian hurriedly shook his head and denied it. "Your Highness, this is unjust. I have followed you for over ten years, and everything I have done is for you. How could I possibly betray you? This would do me no good at all."

King Liang pointed at Zhao Liangsi, who was still shouting on the city wall, and asked, "So, what is he doing?"

Zhao Jian: "Your Highness, I know nothing. He must have been deceived by the Emperor."

Mrs. Zhao's father is also here. He is a civil official. Strictly speaking, he is the uncle of King Liang. Because of this relationship, he defected to King Liang early on.

At this time, relying on his status, he thought that Prince Liang would definitely give him some face, and advised: "Your Highness, how could the Zhao family betray you? Liang Si has always been simple-minded. He must have been deceived by the emperor. The great cause has not yet been accomplished. We cannot start an internal conflict at this time."

His family members were also on the city wall, and he didn't want his family members to die, but now they were trapped here. He knew that as the relatives of King Liang, they would not survive even if King Liang withdrew his troops, so they could only advance and not retreat.

King Liang certainly knew that he couldn't start an internal conflict now, but it was obvious that someone had betrayed him. If he didn't find the traitor, he would be attacked from both sides if a fight broke out later.

Zhao Liangsi continued to shout, "What Prince Liang said is all false. He is slandering the Emperor. The Empress and the two concubines are already pregnant."

As he finished speaking, the queen ignored Duke Lu's obstruction and resolutely walked to the front and stood on the high platform, exposing her entire body so that everyone under the city wall could see her belly clearly.

Some of the officials below knew that Prince Liang was deliberately slandering the emperor, such as Madam Zhao's father and Zhao Jian, who had followed Prince Liang for a long time.

But most of them really believed what King Liang said about the emperor being inhumane. The image King Liang created for the outside world was so good that they trusted King Liang's words immensely. They really felt that King Liang was better than the emperor, and that King Liang would definitely be better as the emperor. That was why they supported King Liang so much.

So when they saw the queen's bulging belly, they all looked at Prince Liang in astonishment.

Prince Liang looked at the queen's belly, gritted his teeth and clenched his fists. He knew that he had been fooled by the emperor.

The emperor must have noticed something was wrong a long time ago, so when he fainted, he didn't drink the medicine given to him by the director of the Imperial Hospital. Otherwise, he would not have made the queen pregnant.

Seeing that many people were wavering, Zhao Jian hurriedly said, "It's fake! The Queen's pregnancy must be fake. Don't believe it. Even if it's not fake, it doesn't mean the child is the Emperor's. It's not certain that the Emperor allowed the Queen to have an affair with someone else to protect his throne. This is confusing the royal bloodline. We can't be fooled by the Emperor."

This is already unpleasant to hear, but it is not impossible. The officials are wavering and don't know who to listen to.

Zhao Liangsi continued to shout, "Prince Liang is full of deceit, cruel and ruthless. He was the one who murdered the late emperor's children. You will not get any good results if you follow such a cruel and ruthless person."

Zhao Jian's face flushed with anger. He rushed forward and shouted, "Shut up, you bastard!"

When Zhao Liangsi saw his father, he shouted happily, "Father, please come here quickly. Mother and sister are here. The emperor has promised that as long as you turn from evil to good, he will forgive all the past. I will bring honor to our family. You should stop messing around with Prince Liang."

He was happy at this time because the emperor valued him. Not only did he win over many students and civil servants for the emperor, but he also acted as a spy for the emperor this time, telling the emperor the hiding places of all the families of the rebellious people and bringing them back.

He felt that with his own merits, he would surely be promoted to a high position and rise to prominence in the future, while Zhao Liangchen, who followed King Liang in rebelling, would surely not survive and would have a miserable end. He finally defeated Zhao Liangchen once, and if Zhao Liangchen was lucky enough not to die, he would ask the emperor to order him to be torn into pieces by five horses.

How could Zhao Jian possibly believe that the Emperor would let him go? He had followed Prince Liang for over ten years and was his confidant. Even if someone like him betrayed Prince Liang now, the Emperor would not let him go. So he angrily said, "What nonsense are you talking about? The Prince is not that kind of person. Don't slander the Prince."

Zhao Liangsi said, "Father, don't be fooled by King Liang. He is not a good man. There is evidence to prove this."

He turned around to look at the old prince, who stepped forward, took out a memorial, opened it, and read out the charges against King Liang.

It contained evidence of all the crimes that King Liang had committed, including murdering the descendants of the previous emperor, murdering the emperor, murdering Su Jijing, and embezzling disaster relief funds.

There is solid evidence for every crime, and what was done will definitely leave traces. Ever since the last time the palace was sealed off due to the epidemic, when the emperor asked Tong Zhongqian to investigate the background of the servants in the palace, he also investigated these cases together.

King Liang had a low status back then and no one was willing to help him. If he wanted to harm someone, he could only bribe the eunuchs and maids in the palace.

At that time, he had not yet married the Princess of Liang and had little money, so he would continue to use the people he had bribed with great difficulty and would not silence them.

These people also became his early confidants, and they contributed a lot to his later control of the palace.

Although the evidence was lost more than ten or twenty years ago, these people are all witnesses.

Tong Zhongqian interrogated everyone and found out a lot of secrets.

Although there is no physical evidence, this kind of thing does not require any evidence at all, as long as someone points out that it was King Liang who did it. Many people will make their own associations. After all, so many sons of the late emperor died, and only the emperor survived, which is very unusual.

If Prince Liang had not rebelled, it would have been a bit far-fetched to say that he was plotting to murder the royal heir, but now that he has rebelled, it makes sense to say that he was plotting to murder the royal heir.

As evidence of King Liang's crimes was announced one by one, the officials on and under the city walls were so shocked that they were speechless.

Even Zhao Jian turned around and looked at King Liang in surprise. He didn't know that King Liang could be so cruel. In the past, he really believed that the late emperor's death of offspring was a sign of bad luck.

After the old prince finished speaking, he also denounced him for testifying for the emperor, saying that all the things that the emperor did not do humanely were framed by King Liang, and he denounced King Liang for his wolfish ambition, insidiousness and cruelty, and for plotting treason and rebellion, calling him a traitor. He wanted to exterminate him from the clan, and would not recognize him even if he succeeded in rebelling today.

After he finished speaking, Zhao Liangsi continued to shout: "Father, did you hear how cruel the King of Liang is? He is so heartless that he doesn't deserve the throne. Don't be stubborn. He will get rid of you if you don't do what he wants. While there is still room for recovery, don't be stubborn anymore."

Zhao Jian now regrets deeply that he did not tell his children that he was working for King Liang for fear that the news would leak out.

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